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BrightDrop - Principal Cloud Security Engineer

  • Location
    • Palo Alto, California
  • Schedule Full time
  • Posted

Description

At BrightDrop, we are reshaping e-commerce by developing smarter, greener, and more efficient ways to deliver goods and services to your door, while delivering a brighter future for the cities where we live. We are building an ecosystem of all-electric, zero-emissions delivery solutions – from electric vehicles, to ePallets and software that leverages real-time data to drive intelligent optimizations for e-commerce. To deliver on our mission we are growing fast and building a team, based in Palo Alto, with offices in Atlanta and Detroit, that is customer-focused, agile and passionate about innovating for a more sustainable future.  

From engineering to product management and operations, BrightDrop is looking for people who can combine a passion for technology and sustainability with high doses of curiosity and rigorous thinking to deliver a better future. 

Backed by General Motors, BrightDrop is striving to improve the communities where we live and deliver a better future for generations to come. We hope you’ll join us. 

The Product Security team at BrightDrop ensures the security of our products and services and as domain experts for our engineering teams and IT teams to protect our customers’ data in today’s dynamic threat landscape. We are a team of highly skilled security engineers that specialize in security research, penetration testing, and security architecture. We evaluate a broad range of technologies including complex web applications,  IoT platform, distributed processing, Cloud environments and isolation of entrusted code. As a Principal Engineer of Cloud Security you will lead to protect our Cloud Infrastructure. Your passion for security and in-depth knowledge of Cloud Security will ensure that you deliver high impact results.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Engineering, implementing and supervising security measures for the protection of Cloud Infrastructure and integrations

  • Perform security architecture reviews for Cloud Infrastructure for existing and new services 

  • Conducti assessments of security controls and configuration and continuous verification with automation 

  • Threat Modeling and Pen Testing 

  • Design and implement Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring use cases.   

  • Implement and Manage DDOS and WAF protections

  • Security Tool Development 

  • Perform Security training and outreach to internal development tools.

  • An advocate for policy of code, security, and automation. Embracing DevSecOps towards all cloud activities

Additional Description

REQUIREMENTS :

  • B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related experience

  • At least 8+ years of experience in Information Security and 4+ years of experience in Cloud Security.

  • Demonstrated success and influence in the Cloud Security space.  Experience defining security policy, technology requirements, and control objectives.

  • Experience in WAF and DDOS

  • Experience in Container Security and EKS 

  • Experience in Logging, monitoring, and responding to detected incidents in the cloud environment.

  • Meaningful experience in High level programming languages (Java, Python, C, C++).

  • Detailed understanding of Cloud Security fundamentals (Cloud networks and Cloud-based Systems), including cryptography and the shared responsibility model

  • Professional experience architecting/operating solutions and security frameworks built on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.

  • Expert knowledge of secure infrastructure architectures, application architectures, encryption, Cloud Security and broader security technologies.

  • An interest and desire to stay abreast of emerging security threats, vulnerabilities, and controls

  • Experience in implementing Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) and Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) is a plus

  • Azure Experience is a plus

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The expected base compensation for this role is: (112,142 - 175,401 USD Annual). Actual base compensation within the identified range will vary based on factors relevant to the position.

Bonus Potential: An incentive pay program offers payouts based on company performance, job level, and individual performance.

Benefits: GM offers a variety of health and wellbeing benefit programs. Benefit options include medical, dental, vision, Health Savings Account, Flexible Spending Accounts, retirement savings plan, sickness and accident benefits, life insurance, paid vacation & holidays, tuition assistance programs, employee assistance program, GM vehicle discounts and more.

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We encourage interested candidates to review the key responsibilities and qualifications and apply for any positions that match your skills and capabilities.

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